I was this very precocious kid with a big personality. When my mother saw that modelling was something I enjoyed, she didn't dissuade me.
An artist is someone who paints and is creative, but they are not necessarily using their brains too much. And it's the same in modelling.
I think with modelling and acting these days, the lines are blurred. Everyone can do all sorts of things, so why do just one?
I was mired in modelling and acting. But as I am an outdoors person, I was still trekking and doing some other activities.
At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood.
I'd always really wanted to act; but the modelling contracts came more easily.
All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it.
With modelling, if you want to be good at it, you try to tell a story in a photo and give a person a sense of feeling.
In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I'd sooner save the energy for something more meaningful.
I always wanted to be an actor and started modelling for various commercials when I was 16 and when I was in Class XII, got 'Issaq' through auditioning.
I suppose it's the feminist in me, but I didn't always associate modelling with an intelligent career. I used to put myself down for doing it.
For me, the most difficult move was when I chose to quit modelling and applied for a position of an assistant director.
I was initially excited about modelling, but soon, I started feeling detached with the job. I wanted dynamic growth in whatever I did.
I rarely had the opportunity to work as a full time model or to pursue a professional career in modelling, because school was always my priority.
When I came to Mumbai in 2005 for a holiday, I received work offers. So I decided to stay back and pursue a modelling and acting career.
I have been modelling since I was four years old so facing the camera is second nature to me.
We have to come into this industry so young, and you have to learn to take it as it is. I was scouted at 14, started modelling at 15, and lived in New York at 16.
I was this very precocious kid with a big personality. When my mother saw that modelling was something I enjoyed, she didnt dissuade me.
Even when I was modelling, I never had a mom sitting on my head and a bunch of people waiting on me. I've always been independent. I'll do my thing and go.
Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.
I think modelling is a very difficult thing. It's glamorous and fun, but underneath it all, you know your flaws, and those are what you focus on.
While I was in college, I was intrigued by modelling and also won the best model award in my college.
I started modelling in college, but it was part time since I was kind of nerdy and wanted to finish my studies.
Aside from my modelling, by the early Nineties I was also starting to work as a photographer, which I loved.
I've acted my whole life pretty much, but then just got more into modelling.
I'm trying to work on my modelling career and remove myself from the whole FHM stigma.
From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about.
When I was 23, basically I stopped modelling and started going to school, and was able to study with wonderful teachers.
I used to dress up in my older sister Alisia's clothes and thought modelling would be fun.
Modelling's not something I want to do just on its own, but I always want it to be a part of my life.
With modelling, there's nothing to work on other than losing weight. I definitely had an eating disorder.
I started modelling quite late, at 20. In this industry, girls start when they're barely even 14 or 15.
My long, blonde hair has been my trademark ever since I started modelling in the Seventies, when I was scouted sunbathing in St Tropez.
We cannot just look at a country by looking at charts, graphs, and modelling the economy. Behind the numbers there are people.
During the investigation evidence of the vulnerability of women in the modelling profession was startling and models are at high risk of eating disorders.
When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.
I got into the entertainment world and started modelling when I was 15. When I told my parents that was what I was going to do for a living, it was very shocking for them.
I'm trying to work on my modelling career and remove myself from the whole FHM stigma. I want to be seen as a classic model.
Value, whether the result of massed lines, broad strokes, or washes, is the necessary and only tool for modelling form with light.
My mom was a photographer and whenever they needed a baby for a modelling job, she'd stick me in front of the camera. That's how it started.
I started modelling at the age of 16 and always aspired to be an actor. But my family only agreed to it on the condition that I would not let my studies suffer because of my work.
Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.
When you're two, three, four years old, it's not really modelling. You run around, and they give you toys in a fun place, and they take pictures of you playing.
I was acting before I was modelling, when I was very young, doing the Edinburgh Festival and that sort of stuff.
In the early days of my modelling career, I think the industry was uncomfortable with how strikingly different I was.
I did modelling for five years, then I felt I wanted to do something different and challenging.
I was 18 years old and a size 10 when I started modelling, but I was told to lose weight right away.
Initially, I got admission in Hindu College, but it was far from my home in Malviya Nagar. Since I was modelling, too, I opted for Gargi.
The worst fear you can have coming from a modelling background is that you're going to be a model-turned- actress - a mattress, that's what I call them, ironically, I hope.
I'll always try to follow my heart into things I love, and modelling is not something I'm dreaming of pursuing forever.
To be on a sound footing, one must have one's perceptions of life clear, and a strong foundation. That is all that ultimately matters, not only in modelling, but in other professions as well.
When I was young, I used to tell my mum that she had to get me on the TV, but then modelling just sort of happened.
I'd like to do some modelling. But I will go on with pentathlon until the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
When I started out modelling, people kept warning me that I would only last five years.
I never thought of a career of as a model, and it was a total surprise for me when I won the contest and became Miss Chelyabinsk. Then I started modelling in Paris.
During my modelling days, I would hear there's no dearth of female models aspiring to be actors.
I was always focussed on the modelling and succeeding in that, but now I'm completely focused on making it over in India in the movies.
Nothing much has changed after I joined the film industry. I follow the same diet and fitness routine that I used to during my modelling days.
I hadn't even thought about what I wanted to do when I left school because I was only 14 when I started modelling.
I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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